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a. | 1492 | f. | 1770 | b. | 1619 | g. | 1773 | c. | 1739 | h. | 1775 | d. | 1746 | i. | 1776 | e. | 1758 | j. | 1787 | | | | |
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The
U.S. Constitution is ratified. It provides for the continuation of the slave trade for another 20
years and required states to aid slaveholders in the recovery of fugitive slaves. It also stipulates
that a slave counts as three-fifths of a man for purposes of determining representation in the House
of Representatives.
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Lucy
Terry, a slave, composes "Bars Fight," the first known poem by an African American. A
description of an Indian raid on Terry's hometown in Massachusetts, the poem will be passed down
orally and published in 1855.
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The
first book by an African American is published (in England) when Phillis Wheatley, then a slave,
publishes "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral."
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4.
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A
black navigator, Pedro Alonso Niño, travels with Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the
New World.
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The
African Baptist or "Bluestone" Church is founded on the William Byrd plantation near the
Bluestone River, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, becoming the first known black church in North America.
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6.
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A
Dutch ship brings 20 African indentured servants to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
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7.
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One
of the earliest slave revolts takes place in Stono, South Carolina. A score of whites and more than
twice as many blacks slaves are killed as the armed slaves try to flee to Florida.
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8.
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A
passage condemning the slave trade is removed from the Declaration of Independence due to pressure
from the southern colonies. The northern states will, however, one by one outlaw slavery, in a very
gradual process that will extend although the last will not do so until.
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Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, becomes the first Colonial soldier to die for
American independence when he is killed by the British in the Boston Massacre.
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10.
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George Washington changes a previous policy and allows free blacks to enlist in the
Continental Army. Approximately 5,000 do so. The British governor of Virginia promises freedom to
slaves who enlist with the British.
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a. | 1794 | f. | 1793 | b. | 1809 | g. | 1807 | c. | 1815 | h. | 1816 | d. | 1800 | i. | 1821 | e. | 1791 | | | | |
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11.
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Benjamin Banneker publishes the first almanac by an African-American and is appointed
by President George Washington to help survey Washington, D.C.
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12.
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Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Act, which makes it a crime to harbor an
escaped slave.
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13.
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Gabriel Prosser tries to organize the first large-scale slave revolt in the U.S.,
gathering more than 1,000 armed slaves in Virginia. The revolt fails, and Prosser and more than 35
other slaves are executed.
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14.
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The
Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City's oldest black church, is founded.
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15.
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The
U.S.'s first independent African American church denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, is organized in Philadelphia. By 2002, it will have more than 3 million members.
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16.
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Richard Allen founds in Philadelphia what would become the Mother Bethel Methodist
Episcopal Church, and Absalom Jones becomes the rector of the Saint Thomas African Episcopal Church.
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17.
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Congress bans the importation of slaves into the U.S. The law will be largely ignored
in the South.
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18.
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African American businessman Paul Cuffe finances the settlement of 38 African
Americans in Sierra Leone.
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19.
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The
first black black theater company in the United States, the African Company, is founded in New
York.
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